Subj : Re: ESXi Alternatives
To   : niter3
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sun Apr 16 2023 09:15:00

-=> niter3 wrote to All <=-

 ni> I'm considering moving off of ESXi for home to XCP-NG.

 ni> I understand Proxmox seems to be the clear popular alternative, but it
 ni> also appears to require more baby sitting. Is this true?

You may want to check out, if you haven't already, the Homelab show
podcast or check out their video channel on YouTube - they do a lot of
comparison between the two.

 ni> I want an alternative I don't need to mess around with. Something that
 ni> just runs without constantly repairing or fixing.

I've been using Proxmox for about a year and a half, and I can't think
of any real babysitting needed. I've upgraded from Proxmox VE v6 to v7, done
a couple of minor upgrades. The process is typically me thinking I
haven't updated in a while, opening a shell and running "apt-get
update;apt-get upgrade". There were some additional steps to go from v6
to v7.

I'm running the BBS, a couple of old desktops, a Linux desktop and an AD
environment (Windows Server 2019 and Windows 10) on it, and it's been
pretty good to me.

At a bare minumum, Proxmox is really just qemu, kvm and Debian with a
web GUI. You can add ZFS and clustering to make it more featureful, but
in a home lab environment it feels less fiddly than ESXi. I certainly
don't need to worry about hardware support, like I do with ESXi. I've
had hosts that were running in production fall off the compatibility
list for no reason. Those hosts ran Proxmox just fine.   :)

I'd be curious to hear about your experiences with xcp-ng, I'd love to
find out more.



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